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Crystallization kinetic parameters, such as spherulitic growth rates, nucleation densities, and Avrami-exponents, have been determined by optical microscopy for isotactic polypropylene blended with atactic polystyrene. It is found that the crystallization of iPP is strongly influenced by the presence of polystyrene. With increasing PS concentration in the blend, the nucleation densities decrease, while the spherulitic growth rates as well as the positions of thermal peaks, measured by DSC, remain independent of sample composition. Due to the formation of interfaces as a consequence of increasing dispersion of polystyrene the nucleation changes from preferentially thermal to athermal.
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Wenig, W., Fiedel, H.W. & Scholl, A. Crystallization kinetics of isotactic polypropylene blended with atactic polystyrene. Colloid & Polymer Sci 268, 528–535 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01410294
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